Sentences with phrase «vague talk of»

Inevitable, like death: Don't be fooled by vague talk of ETFs» freedom from Uncle Sam.

«We're rewriting our first two years of our History degree to create a wider set of paper choices, to make assessment criteria clearer, and to really try and root out the unhelpful and very vague talk of «genius», of «brilliance», of «flair» which carries assumptions of gender inequality and also of class and ethnicity.»

If they cocked this up so badly we need to hear a little less from them in the immediate future about their insights as to how Labour could win a general election, not that many offered much before beyond vague talk of the «centre ground».

Indeed, some high - flying, abstract, and vague talk of pluralism seems to assume the validity of a thorough relativism about these diversities («each variation - culturally, religiously, morally, or intellectually — is as good and true as any of the others»).

Not exact matches

Mentally editing out the fuzzy, vague buzzwords when you are talking, speaking, listening, or reading gradually clears your mind of the confusion they create, thereby making you smarter.

But, when we talk about America becoming great again — defined, in a vague way, by a greater degree of upward mobility — what decade most often gets referenced?

Cheon Seong - Whun of The Asan Institute for Policy Studies says denuclearization is too vague of a concept in Korean Peninsula talks and the focus should turn to nuclear «dismantlement» for Pyongyang.

The pill is full of vague language about «agreements, arrangements or understandings» in order to make it scary for shareholders to talk to Pershing Square.

After many years of vague talk by governments about fighting global warming, it is encouraging that the debate has finally begun to tackle specific mechanisms to achieve cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.Â

Instead, Harvey resorts to talking about the «utter impudence» of Pfau's article and making a rather vague clarification that the DALBAR method calculates returns that investors «recognize as returns, not what the investments produce».

3) While your talk of spirituality is vague you also talk of Jesus, who is particular.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

I have had several Muslims on my site who start out talking with lots of vague, and apparently open comments but in the end, held fairly classic exclusivist views.

«Law - abiding citizens, such as Christians, could be caught by the vague definitions of extremism that get bandied about when ministers are trying to talk tough.

It is not unusual that Mays finds Whitehead's talk of God metaphysical, but it is unusual that he interprets it as being vague talk about the extensive scheme (or system).»

Preachers and theologians (especially Protestants) pride themselves on avoiding body - soul dualism, but pious talk at funerals is usually of the departed person surviving as a vague, benign spirit or as a thought in the memories of others.

While I now savor such writing and find it genuinely inspiring, Western readers, who expect theology to be in the form of propositional jousting, are apt to find such talk too vague.

Between all the talk about a shortage, along with vague memories of its lack of availability last year, I figured why not?

(I do have a vague memory of a deep - fried rice paper roll version in Cambodia or Laos, but I'm talking about just the fresh kind here).

Well, may be here, in the UK or England, since the good British managers are the rare pearl... In France, I have not heard his laurels since 2006... As a matter of fact, he is less and less seen on the football and program platforms because he can not talk modern football with the new vague of managers.

Obviously, «big games» is a painfully vague term, as is «strong teams,» so by way of explanation, we're basically talking any game in which Arsenal might not be favourites, or might not be strong favourites, and any team that's in with a shout of either winning the Champions League or ending up in the Premier League's top four.

on whether he is tired of talking about it... It's not the fatigue factor, it's just I can not tell you what I don't know and so I don't want to give information that I can not back up after because it will come to me and you will say why did you say that and rightly so, so I like to be a bit vague and use my whole experience of press conferences not to talk things that I can not back up after.

He is just following a vague and scripted talk that only serves to undermine the credibility of the industry.

There has been a lot of behind - the - scenes negotiations and vague public talk of agreements in the works.

The government is fond of talking in vague terms about how it returns power to local communities.

We all assume he will do the right thing, but we have received only vague talking points, and in my dealing with the campaign, I found them to be out of the loop on trans issues, even the most basic ones.»

Locally, Verizon has refused to comment about FIOS in the Hudson Valley publicly, beyond some talk at a regional meeting where there was vague mention of union difficulties.

Thus, when talking about the chemical composition of planetary interiors, certain should be replaced by dubious, positive proof by vague suggestions, and, when talking about Earth's core, pure iron should be replaced by uncertain mixture of all the elements.

Some information from previous generations may be vague or not formally diagnosed (for example, in the early 1900's a person might have been said to have a «mental breakdown» - which resulted in them being temporarily treated in a psychiatric hospital, given shock treatments and released; or maybe you had a «eccentric uncle» that lived by himself in a cabin away from society and only very rarely socialized with family, and spoke of conspiracy theories when he did talk.

You probably did use that word when we talked because I have vague memories of me asking you to describe its meaning.

The smart but vague screenplay is a generic manifesto for the U.N.'s mission of using talk instead of violence to resolve problems facing the international community.

By simply watching the participants talk about their feelings, sometimes in the vaguest of terms, McLeary illustrates how men build strong façades to conceal their pain from others and themselves.

And let's talk about the ultra-predictable main conflict — in vague terms, of course.

There is lovely footage of inquisitive Nouvelle Vague godhead Franoçois Truffaut firing probing questions at an Alfred Hitchcock who is clearly loving the attention, but what Jones has done is made a film in which he has roped in a host of other famous directors (David Fincher, Arnaud Desplechin, Wes Anderson, James Gray, etc.) to talk about Hitchcock and how his work affected their own work.

It's hard to talk about just how fantastic the fight scenes in Civil War are (compared to some of the bigger parts of the Avengers movies) without giving too much away, so I'll try to remain as vague as possible for those who don't want to know too much about it.

I am not a fan of this UK advert, there's lots of talking in it but no substance to the words, «You can live life however you want, you can do as much or as little as you like...» could they be any more vague?

He's talked about a couple of different scripts in vague terms — one for adults, one for kids — and his plans to bring Pee - Wee's Playhouse to the stage were implication enough that keeping the Playhouse alive was still part of his movie plan.

If entrepreneurs can be «too nice» in a public forum, self - styled reformers can be too vague — choosing to bang familiar drums like «teacher unions,» «school choice,» «accountability,» or «incentives» rather than talking clearly and concretely about the mechanics of reinventing K — 12 education.

In a speech titled «My Passion for Education Reform,» published Sept. 1 on his Web site, he talks about charter schools without even a vague hint of any problems with them, including the one he co-founded in 1996.

How fortuitous — I'd just spent all of 30 seconds glancing through the catalogs in the waiting area, so I said intelligently, «Oh yes — those are like departments,» despite having only the vaguest notion of what I was talking about.

My review will talk about game mechanics, and avoid spoilers for the DLC, but it's hard not to spoil some of the events of the Bioshock series without being too vague.

I'm divided and confused, and it's made all the worse by the fact that I can't talk about it here in any depth for fear of spoiling it for you, dear reader, rather I must talk in a vague manner, which I suppose isn't much different from normal for me.

I am not a fan of this UK advert, there's lots of talking in it but no substance to the words, «You can live life however you want, you can do as much or as little as you like...» could they be any more vague?

This week, we are talking a ton of news including PUBG's «War» mode, the incredibly vague road map for Sea of Thieves, Shenmue getting remasters, the Sega Mega Drive Mini, Anthem's narrative, and Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII possibly not getting a single player campaign.

There was some vague talk about Project Morpheus, but considering the Oculus Rift conference last week, where the consumer version of the headset was formally announced, Sony's VR tech was strangely absent from E3.

Apart from the occasional vague comment here and there from Sony, most of the cross-platform talk has come from Microsoft in recent years, with one game developer likening the stand - off to Game of Thrones.

Vague dream - head lifted out of the ground, and thing next most diffuse to cloud, not all your light tongues talking aloud could be profound.

In fact, the present apotheosis of Broodthaers as an artist is a radical cultural transformation, just not the liberatory one that people of the arts so often talk of in vague and longing terms.

of course not because that is a very vague term «climate change» especially since A. Global Warming has been mostly abandoned as a talking point and your not mentioning the «amount» of climate change.

The Cancun global warming and wealth redistribution summit concluded last week, with little to show for two weeks of talking in 5 - star hotels and restaurants, other than vague promises that countries will try to do something meaningful about the «threat» of «dangerous» climate change.